Secret Talent At The Beginning, Burning Corpses Can Make You Stronger

Chapter 535

At night, the huge capital city was pitch black.

Only the torches of the night watch flickered in the darkness like wisps of will-o'-the-wisp.

During the day, the Shun army moved back and forth, and the tense and chilling atmosphere stirred up the whole city, not to mention people, even the dogs stopped barking.

Even the watchman who was watching the watch disappeared without a trace.

After Dashun occupied the capital, all the government offices of the previous dynasty were disbanded, and they have not been restored to this day.

However, at this time on the streets of Xicheng, there were two slightly thin figures holding each other's hands and running on both sides of the street, carefully avoiding the firelight of the night patrol.

Occasionally, flames flashed by, reflecting two fair and slightly frightened faces.

One is a teenager and the other is a girl.

The boy's eyebrows are quite heroic, he looks about fifteen or sixteen years old, and the girl is slightly younger, with delicate features and gentle temperament.

If there is an old minister of Dali here, he will definitely exclaim: Prince.

This young girl is none other than Prince Zhu Ci and Crown Princess Ming Wan.

After the capital surrendered, those officials and generals who decided to surrender finally retained the last shred of shame, and did not arrest Chongzheng and the prince and send them to the Shun army.

Before Chongzheng hanged himself, he ordered the queen to commit suicide, beheaded the princess, and then recruited Zhu Ci, who ordered him to change into civilian clothes and escape in the chaos.

Perhaps he was completely desperate for the dynasty. Before leaving, Chongzheng did not ask Zhu Ci to go south to succeed him, but asked him to leave the capital, hide his name, and forget everything in the palace.

At that moment, Zhu Ci felt that the sky was collapsing, and after crying farewell to Chongzheng, Zhu Ci took Ming Wan with him, changed into civilian clothes secretly, ran out of the palace while taking advantage of the chaos, and hid in the house of a small official serving in the East Palace.

The so-called Eastern Palace servants are the officials in the Eastern Palace who accompany the prince to study, and are close ministers of the prince.

This person was loyal and took in Zhu Ci and Ming Wan at the risk of being exterminated if he found out that he was harboring the former prince.

In this way, although Zhu Ci and Ming Wan were worried every day, they finally had a shelter.

But soon, General Liu Zongmin of the Shun Army began to make donations throughout the city, arresting people almost according to the list of officials.

At first, it was princes and nobles, cabinet ministers, and then spread to senior officials of the fourth and fifth ranks.

In the end, even the servants of the East Palace and other ninth-rank officials were not spared.

The amount extorted from Donggong attendant was as high as 3,000 taels.

Chongzheng was a poor emperor, Zhu Ci was a poor prince, and the East Palace servant was Qingshui's position. The salary was pitiful, and the reward was just a symbolic gift during the New Year. The family was poor, so how could they get three thousand taels of money.

So this Donggong

He read it and was beaten to death in Zhao Prison.

He was loyal, and until his death he did not confess Zhu Ci's existence in exchange for a chance of survival.

A few days later, a group of Shunjun broke into Donggong Shidu's house again, killed all seven members of Donggong Shidu's family, and robbed them of all their money and food.

Zhu Ci and Ming Wan ran out of food, and after starving for two days, they had to go out to find a new hiding place.

Luckily, the two of them avoided groups of Shun troops who were patrolling the night, and arrived at the gate of a rather dignified house. The words on the door plaque had been knocked out, and only four traces remained: Jiadingbo Mansion.

After a while.

When Zhou Kui, who was humming on the bed, saw Zhu Ci and Ming Wan, he was overjoyed.

Zhou Kui, the father of Empress Zhou, Chongzheng's father-in-law, is Zhu Ci's grandfather.

That's right, the owner of Jiadingbo's mansion is that Chongzheng who called for silver donations and cried for poverty and was only willing to donate fifty taels. Empress Zhou had no choice but to secretly send him ten thousand taels and asked him to donate, but he made five thousand taels while crying The ultimate miser, Zhou Kui.

In the huge capital city, when Zhu Ci left the servant's house, the first thing that Zhu Ci thought of was his grandfather.

However, Zhou Kui's ecstasy was not the joy of seeing his "grandson", but because he saw the opportunity to get back the stolen family property.

Liu Zongmin's copying and donating, of course, Zhou Kui, the former "father of the country", is indispensable.

After some torture, Zhou Kui couldn't bear the pain, and confessed the location of the Tibetan silver at home.

At first, when Chongzheng called for donations of silver to fight against the Shun army, Zhou Kui was only willing to donate fifty taels of silver, but as soon as Liu Zongmin was tortured, all three million taels of silver in his family were "donated".

Three million to fifty, one side is the enemy who subjugated the country, and the other side is his "daughter and son-in-law".

What is retribution, this is called retribution.

But on a larger scale, Zhou Kui's actions are nothing more than the epitome of nobles and dignitaries of the capital, civil and military officials.

Donated all the family wealth, Zhou Kui's heartache was more severe than the pain on his body.

Silver, that is his life.

At this time, Zhu Ci appeared.

what is this?

grandson?

no no no!

This is the credit of being alive, the hope of claiming credit from the Shun Army and getting back home.

Zhou Kui felt his blood rushing up, and quickly got up from the bed, pointed at Zhu Ci and Ming Wan and shouted to his servant: "Hurry up, catch them!"

The servants of the left and right didn't understand the identities of Zhu Ci and Ming Wan, and they rushed forward to defeat the two who had no power to resist.

People knocked down.

"Grandfather, you...you, why?!" Zhu Ci's face changed drastically, and he exclaimed.

"Don't call me grandfather again." Zhou Kui pointed at Zhu Ci with bright eyes and said, "You are a remnant of the previous dynasty. If I don't arrest you and send you to the official, my life will be in danger."

"No...don't, I'm leaving now, don't catch me..."

Zhu Ci's face turned pale from being frightened. He, who is still young in experience, never imagined that Zhou Kui would arrest him as soon as they met.

"Please, don't catch me~"

"I promise I won't say that I've been here and won't hurt you, grandpa, please~" Pen Fun Library

Zhu Ci begged bitterly, but what he didn't know was that Zhou Kui was not afraid of getting involved, but wanted to arrest him to claim credit.

Grabbing the prince of the previous dynasty is a great achievement in any dynasty.

However, Zhou Kui would not allow him to talk too much, and ordered his servants to gag him and Ming Wan, then loaded them into the carriage, and hurriedly went out to the Prime Minister's Mansion.

The appearance of jumping up and down did not look like he had been tortured in Zhao Prison, his face was full of red light.

Lying in the carriage, Zhu Ci's face was pale, his heart was full of panic, and he was a little dazed. He still couldn't accept the fact that his grandfather would arrest him and send him to the official. Ming Wan's face turned pale, and her whole body was trembling .

The two looked at each other, tears streaming down their faces.

The galloping carriage bumped up and down at a high speed, and the cold wind pouring in from the door curtain chilled the two of them, as if falling into an ice cave.

Falling into the hands of the Shun army will lead to death, if you can get a happy one, that's all, if not, you will have to be tortured to death.

For thousands of years, there has been no exception.

However, at this moment, the cold wind from the door curtain suddenly stopped, and even the jolting of the carriage became less severe.

Zhu Ci raised his eyes, and suddenly his eyes widened.

At the door curtain, there was an extra person at some point.

This person was dressed in coarse linen and sat behind the curtain with his back straight. He looked at him darkly, shook his head in disappointment and said: "The dragon's head has no light, this Da Li's strength is finally exhausted."

After finishing speaking, he let out a "hush", stretched out his hand and pulled the pouting cloth from Zhu Ci's mouth, and asked, "Are you going to face the prince, Zhu Ci?"

Zhu Ci didn't dare to say anything, and nodded quickly.

"Do you want to live?" the visitor asked again.

Zhu Ci nodded again and again.

"Very good, but the price is that from now on you will forget everything about yourself, including your identity, status, glory and wealth, even your name, and you will live another person's life. Are you still willing?"